sedumzz said: My natural soil here is like 80-95% clay. SO it's a pain in the butt to dig if it's not super moist or saturated. But, when it's wet or really saturated its suuuuuper easy to dig.
My raised garden beds range from just plain gardening soil to 60% sand to 50% perlite
Talk about a pain in the butt. My neighbors saw some mad guy beating the ground with an axe in the middle of the hot summer sun.
The soil at my new house is sandy clay loam. Still a pain, but it drains a little bit better. Fortunately, they went a bit overzealous with mulching the area with small landscaping lava rock. Great access to grit.
The first steps will be tearing out the beautiful lawn (being careful not to damage the watering system).
I will have to check if they installed gopher mesh. Hardware cloth seems like a great alternative.
Everyone.
